Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Cybersecurity and Defense

This post bothers me. The main defense against tyranny and oppression is information. Cut off the flow of information and it becomes a lot easier to quash resistance. Thus I am leery of giving anyone the power to shut down large parts of cyberspace. The argument about it being necessary for safety is not altogether reassuring: most things that can be used for safety can be horribly abused, and are unless people to go great lengths to prevent that.

Fortunately, there are hackers. I'm pretty confident that in the case of berserk government blackout, there would be some people with the skills and determination to build a ghostnet.
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siliconshaman

siliconshaman

April 6 2009, 04:03:40 UTC 12 years ago Edited:  April 6 2009, 04:05:18 UTC

Actually, it's more like "already have" built a ghostnet, or Darknet.

But as I said over there. When around 90% of all information flow is routed though the USA, when ICANN [an american company] controls the primary DNS [the root servers for the net]... these powers would mean that some hypothetical President could hold the entire world's network to hostage. Take the US offline, and the rest of the network goes dark [at least until people work out how to route around it, if at all possible.]

Do you really think we'd let you do that?
ysabetwordsmith

*sigh*

ysabetwordsmith

April 6 2009, 04:31:13 UTC 12 years ago

I certainly hope not.
fayanora

fayanora

April 6 2009, 05:02:40 UTC 12 years ago

LOL! Icon love!
fayanora

fayanora

April 6 2009, 05:02:22 UTC 12 years ago

Gods, now THIS government is chasing imaginary figments too? Gah.
hafoc

hafoc

April 7 2009, 00:00:02 UTC 12 years ago

Don't know where the quote comes from, but it's true: If you can control what questions the people ask, you need never fear what answers the people demand.